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  • Iranian spies die in dawn hanging Iranian spies die in dawn hanging

    Two spies have been hanged in Iran following a Revolutionary Court judgement. Press TV has reported the spies, who worked for the US Central Intelligence Agency and the Israeli spy agency, the Mossad, were hanged at dawn on Sunday. Sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, the men have been named as Mohammad Heidari, a Mossad agent and Kourosh Ahmadi, who was convicted of working for ...

  • Iran executes two alleged spies

    Iranian authorities have executed two men after they were charged and convicted for spying Israel and the United States. Iran has repeatedly accused Israel and the U.S. of carrying out covert intelligence operations following ongoing pressure on the country over its nuclear programme, which the Western nations suspect as being used to build an atomic weapon, despite Tehran's insistence that the ...

  • Iranian Intelligence Reveals Details of Anti-Espionage Operation

    Tehran, May 20 (Prensa Latina) The operation that resulted in the dismantling of two spy networks in Iran went on for months and was developed both inside and outside the country, Iran's Ministry of Intelligence revealed today in a public communique. On Sunday morning, two Iranian individuals were executed after being found guilty by the Revolutionary Court here in the capital of collecting ...

  • Irans electoral watchdog may ban Rafsanjani

    DUBAI - Iran's electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from the race.Rafsanjani, if he is allowed to run, would be a significant challenge to conservative hardliners who are ultra-loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali ...

  • Azerbaijan works to return citizens detained in Iran

    Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry continues the coordination work to get released Azerbaijani scholar Khalida Khalid and her assistant Shamkhal Huseynov, who have been detained in Tabriz earlier. The statement came from spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan Elman Abdullayev at a press conference ...

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Although Frank Capra had been working in the film industry since the late teens--churning out gags for Mack Sennett, directing low-budget "quickies" for fledgling Columbia Pictures--American Madness is the first of his films that can be rightly described as "Capraesque" i ... ...

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  • Iran electoral watchdog hints at Rafsanjani rejection

    Iran 's electoral watchdog said on Monday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former ...

  • Iranian elections Opposition There is no such word here

    opposition Green Movement and its violent suppression over the months that followed."I don't know who is actually running since no one knows who'll be on the final list vetted by the Guardian Council," Arash adds. In 2009, 475 Iranians registered to run for president. Only four were approved as candidates after vetting by the council of religious and legal experts. This year, ...

  • Iranian FM to trip to Azerbaijan

    Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi plans to visit Azerbaijan soon, Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan reports. Salehi had a telephone conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov ...

  • Report Iran inaugurates production of new air defence missile system

    < Iran (AP) ' Iran says it has started mass producing a new sophisticated air defence missile system capable of engaging low-altitude ...

  • Ras al-Khaimah Ruler receives Iranian Consul

    WAM RAS AL-KHAIMAH, May 20th, 2013 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras al-Khaimah today received at al Dhait Palace the Consul General of Iran in the UAE, Ali Asghar Shafi'i, who paid a courtesy visit at the end of his tenure in the UAE. Sheikh Saud wished Shafi'i success in his new assignment. The meeting was attended by Sheikh ...

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